Home made Banana Cream Pie – Sally’s Baking Dependancy

Creamy and easy from-scratch custard joins bananas, whipped cream, and a buttery flaky baked pie crust to make one epic banana cream pie. This basic dessert is 100% selfmade, like my cherry pie, and the proper make-ahead possibility as a result of the layered magnificence must set earlier than garnishing and serving.

One reader, Stephanie, says: “…That is the primary time I’ve used this explicit recipe and it was AMAZING. Actually one of the best one I’ve made. I shall be bookmarking this one for the long run! ★★★★★“

This can be a utterly from-scratch banana cream pie recipe. You received’t discover any field pudding mixes or synthetic flavors hiding inside. I initially revealed the recipe in 2016, and have fine-tuned the method through the years. Prepare for a blissful banana expertise the place you may really style the selfmade distinction. And it’ll graciously fulfill your coronary heart, soul… and your tastebuds.

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Right here’s Why You Will LOVE This Banana Cream Pie

• 100% from scratch, and you’ll style the distinction.
• Creamy and undeniably wealthy.
• If custard is cooked correctly, it’s sturdy and easy.
• Flaky pie crust shell, or attempt a graham cracker crust.
• An optionally available sprinkle of cinnamon provides a particular and flavorful contact.
• Good make-ahead dessert.

What Is Banana Cream Pie?

The mixture of kitchen magic. 😉 Significantly, although, banana cream pie combines selfmade pie pastry crust, contemporary bananas, vanilla custard, and fluffy whipped cream.

1. Baked Pie Crust Shell
2. Banana Slices
3. Home made Vanilla Custard
4. Whipped Cream

Let me stroll you thru every layer, so that you’re absolutely ready when it’s your flip to make it.

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First, Bake Your Pie Crust

It’s useful to evaluation my easy methods to blind bake pie crust tutorial earlier than getting began. Blind baking a pie crust shell = baking it with no filling. Why will we try this? Properly, when you have a no-bake pie filling like coconut cream pie or at the moment’s banana cream pie, you want a baked pie crust.

Begin with selfmade pie dough. I all the time use this pie crust recipe, or I’ve a wonderful all butter pie crust possibility. To bake pie crust with no filling, you should weight it down to assist forestall it from shrinking. I’m fairly loyal to these ceramic pie weights; they’re cheap and get the job performed. You can too use dry beans. (Observe: You’ll want 2 packs of the pie weights!)

Listed here are the steps:

• Make the pie dough forward of time, after which refrigerate or freeze till you’re able to make the pie. Pie crust should chill for at the very least 2 hours earlier than rolling out.
• Roll it out, then match into your 9-inch pie dish. Crimp or flute the sides.
• Chill the formed pie crust for at the very least half-hour. This prevents shrinking. Keep in mind that pie dough have to be chilly when it hits the oven.
• Line with parchment paper, after which fill with pie weights.
• Bake till the sides are frivolously brown, about quarter-hour.
• Take away pie weights, then prick the underside with a fork. This lets air escape the underside.
• Return crust to oven till your complete pie shell is golden brown.
• Cool pie shell utterly. You are able to do this as much as 3 days forward of time!

This baked pie crust “shell” is crispy, flaky, and prepared in your banana cream filling.

Different Crust Choices:

1. For one thing simpler, you should utilize a graham cracker crust. Be sure you bake it for 10 minutes at 350°F (177°C), then let it cool utterly earlier than filling.
2. Or attempt the peanut butter cookie crust from my peanut butter banana cream pie!

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Now Let’s Work on the Filling

Listed here are the components you want:

Layer in Your Banana Slices

Layer banana slices into your baked pie crust shell. Typically I add a sprinkle of cinnamon on prime of the banana slices. That is undoubtedly a novel addition to BCP, however wow!!! It tastes unbelievable. I didn’t add it to the pictured pie, however style testers and readers who’ve tried it normally rave about it.

Success Tip: Don’t use overly ripe bananas as a result of they’ll seep liquid and break your thick custard filling. Save your brown spotty bananas for banana bread, and use the yellow ones for banana cream pie.

I squeeze in as many banana slices as I can:

Home made Custard Filling

I’m right here to squash any fears that you could have about from-scratch custard. It’s truly fairly simple—if you understand how to whisk, you can also make it. You’ll want sugar, complete milk, heavy cream (additionally wanted for the whipped cream topping), and egg yolks. For taste, you’ll add vanilla and butter. For thickening, you’ll use cornstarch. (The egg yolks and cream assist, too.)

Step one is to combine egg yolks and cornstarch collectively:

I normally do that with a fork in a liquid measuring cup, as a result of we’ll finally pour this into the cooking milk combination.

Warmth complete milk, cream, sugar, and just a little salt on the range. As soon as the milk/cream/sugar is gently simmering, slowly stream and whisk just a little of this milk combination into the egg yolk/cornstarch combination. That is referred to as tempering. The gradual and regular stream of heat milk is bringing the egg yolks’ temperature up with out scrambling them.

Then stream and whisk the heated egg yolk combination into the remainder of the milk/cream/sugar on the range. Cook dinner on low, and let it start to bubble, which occurs fairly rapidly. Whisk it whereas it pops and bubbles for simply 1 minute. Take away from warmth, then stir within the vanilla and butter, and enable to barely cool.

The custard shall be easy, wealthy, and silky:

FAQ: Why Isn’t My Custard Easy?

Do you discover little bits of egg yolks in your custard? You could not have tempered them slowly sufficient. Keep in mind to *very slowly* stream and whisk among the cooking milk combination into the egg yolk/cornstarch combination, after which *very slowly* stream and whisk it again into the pot. Whisk consistently.

In case your finest efforts nonetheless end in just a few chunks, you may pressure the completed heat custard by way of a nice mesh sieve. Or simply depart it—you may’t actually style it.

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The way to Guarantee Your Banana Cream Pie Units

With 4 egg yolks, 4 Tablespoons of cornstarch, and a few heavy cream, you will be sure this custard units into a fairly sliceable texture. You’ll want to whisk it on the range usually, and let it bubble and prepare dinner lengthy sufficient for the warmth to assist bind the cornstarch to the fats. (1 minute is loads.)

Unfold the vanilla custard filling over the banana slices, cowl with plastic wrap proper on the floor to forestall a pores and skin from forming, then refrigerate the pie for at the very least 4 hours and as much as 1 day.

FAQ: Can I Make Banana Cream Pie in Advance?

This can be a make-ahead dessert. You may make the pie dough prematurely and bake the pie crust shell prematurely. You can too refrigerate your assembled (however not garnished) banana cream pie for as much as 1 day, with the plastic wrap proper on prime of the floor. And you can also make the whipped cream topping prematurely, however don’t add it till proper earlier than, or as much as 1 hour earlier than serving.

You don’t wish to embellish the pie with banana slices prematurely as a result of they’ll brown. (A brush of lemon juice can prolong their freshness by a pair hours, however will have an effect on their taste.)

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Proper earlier than, or as much as 1 hour earlier than, serving, prime the pie with selfmade whipped cream. You possibly can embellish it any which means—a thick layer of whipped cream like this banoffee pie, or fairly piped dollops or swirls just like the pictured pie. I take advantage of Wilton 1M piping tip to pipe it.

You could possibly additionally dissipate your leftover egg whites and prime it with this marshmallow meringue topping, and toast it with a kitchen torch!

When able to serve, add banana slices on prime. I normally go heavy on the sliced banana garnish. I really like texture in desserts, and banana cream pie doesn’t normally ship on that entrance. However with a lot of banana slices, we’ll get there.

Now savor each flaky, creamy, fluffy chew because it melts in your mouth, since you should. You made this all from scratch!

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